His lordship was a liberal patron of British art. The judgment

exhibited in the collection which adorned the walls of his mansion' in Spring Gardens proclaimed the connoisseur as well as the amateur; and almost every picture is a gem, which one would be tempted to choose as the best specimen of the artist extant, always to be referred to as a pleasing example of his style and execution. Among these, the celebrated composition of the "Queen's Trial," by Hayter, is memorable as an historical document, and a gallery of distinguished portraits such as has rarely been produced; while the works of Lawrence, Collins, Jackson, Newton, Landseer, Callcott, and other eminent contemporaries, add to the treasures of this selection, no less distinguished by its uniform taste and feeling, than by the grace, beauty, and interest of its component parts. In literary pursuits, similar discrimination and refinement have marked the career of Mr. Ellis. As an author, he has published within a short time, "The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask, extracted from documents in the French archives;" "Historical Inquiries respecting the Character of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor of England; ""The Ellis Correspondence," in two octavo volumes, illustrating a remarkable period of the annals of England, from the letters of the editor's family. He also wrote the "Life of

Frederick the Great, King of Prussia.' His last work was, "Correspondence of Horace Walpole with Sir Horace Mann," published from the originals in the possession of Earl Waldegrave. Mr. Ellis also, in 1822, produced a Catalogue Raisonné of the principal pictures in Flanders and Holland, which was printed, but not published; and he was the writer of some able reviews, both in the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, as well as of articles in Magazines, Annuals, and other periodicals, which reflect great credit upon his fancy and talents.

Lord Dover has left an infant family of six children, the eldest, the Hon. Henry Agar Ellis, (the present peer,) being in his ninth year only. His lordship was a personal friend of the late King, and of the King of the Belgians, who stood sponsor for one of his children in 1829. A writer in the "Times" thus speaks of the noble lord: : - -"If length of days were to be commensurate with personal merit, his life would have been one of no ordinary duration. Amiable and exemplary in all his private relations, an upright, zealous, and intrepid supporter of his political opinions, he will long be regretted by his family and his party; add to this his elegant accomplishments as a man of society, and his various and extensive attainments as a man of letters, and it would be difficult to find, in the whole range of English gentry and nobility, a personage who will be so severely missed. He possessed, in his family, and fortune, and character, every motive which can make life desirable; but he had discharged his various duties, both domestic and social, so conscientiously and honorably, that, short as his life has been, it has been long enough to establish a reputation,

which there are few men past or present, who, having lived to the greatest age, would not be proud to enjoy."

[The Intelligenzblatt (No. 27.) of the Allgemeine LiteraturZeitung for April, presents a striking lesson of the uncertainty of life. The first article is a biographical notice of Daniel von Coelln, Professor of Theology at Breslau. He was born the 21st of December, 1788, and died the 20th of last February. He was the author of various theological works; but they relate in great part to the existing state of opinion in Germany, and are not likely to be read with interest out of that country.

The notice to which we have referred is an affectionate tribute to his memory by his friend, the distinguished philologist, Passow. The article which immediately follows is an official annunciation by Schultz, the Rector of the University at Breslau, of the death of Passow himself, who was professor of Ancient Literature. He had finished the article upon his friend but two days before he himself was suddenly taken away, on the 11th of March. He was born the 20th of September, 1786. He is principally known out of Germany by his Greek Lexicon, of which the first edition was published in 1821, and the fourth in 1830. A further account of him may be found in the Intelligenzblatt, No. 31. — Edd.]

DEATHS.

At Lausanne, December 28th, 1832, the celebrated novelist, MADAME DE MONTOLIEU, in her 82d year. She was born May 7th, 1751. Her original works and translations are said to fill 105 volumes. At Paris, January 9th, the great mathematician, LEGENDRE, at advanced age.

a very

At Reval, January 20th, MADAME MARA, the famous opera singer, nearly 84 years of age. In the year 1830, on her eightysecond birth-day, Goethe addressed to her some complimentary verses, as he had done 60 years before.

At Paris, February 6th, the naturalist, LATREILLE, the fellowlaborer of Cuvier in his "Règne animal." He died in his 71st year.

April 11th, the Rev. ROWLAND HILL, long distinguished as an eccentric preacher in London. He was born in August, 1744. May 15th, EDMUND KEAN, the celebrated tragedian. He was born in 1788.

At London, July, in the 74th year of his age, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, Esq.

INTELLIGENCE.

A NEW translation of the Inferno of Dante by Ichabod Charles Wright is reviewed in the last (the 116th) number of the Edinburgh and in the last (the 98th) number of the Quarterly. It is praised in the former, and noticed unfavorably in the latter, though the talents of the translator are acknowledged.

We have in this number of the Select Journal given an article on Béranger from Tait's Magazine. There are two others upon the same writer, one in the 116th number of the Edinburgh and one in the 23d number of the Foreign Quarterly. In both the immorality of Béranger is but slightly remarked. In the Foreign Quarterly, it is said, that "he is the most popular writer now living in Europe," and that "his volumes, with the prose of the late Paul Courier, form the common manuals of a great proportion of the youth in France." These are melancholy facts, if they are facts.

In the last number of the Edinburgh there is an article upon the "Characteristics of Goethe. From the German of Falk, von Müller, &c. With Notes original and translated, illustrative of German Literature. By Sarah Austin. 3 vols. 8vo. ;-and the last Foreign Quarterly contains a review of the first five volumes just published of Goethe's Posthumous Works. The latter article is principally occupied by an account of the "Continuation of Faust." In both, there is an approach to a more sober and discriminating tone of criticism than we have lately seen in articles upon Goethe. In the Edinburgh Review there are some remarks upon the pretence set up by Goethe's admirers, that there is profound wisdom hidden in his writings, which he has not "chosen to reveal more distinctly." "I have never yet," says Mrs. Austin, "met with a German who affected to understand Goethe throughout." It is the only ground on which Goethe's reputation as a philosopher can be defended; and it is an opinion which he himself was well disposed to countenance. We have just been reading a great part of "Wilhelm Meister's Year of Travel." There are not many pages together in which its author does not announce something as "wunderlich" (wonderful) or "geheimnissvoll" (mysterious); and the is case clear, that if the book is not full of "hidden" wisdom, it is full of niaiseries.

M. Klaproth's Examination of Champollion's Labors upon the Hieroglyphics (See Select Journal, No. II. Part 2, p. 127) is the subject of

another article in the last Edinburgh. The reviewer adopts fully the opinions and reasonings of M. Klaproth, and himself brings the charge of literary dishonesty against Champollion.

There are few books that excite a stronger interest or may be read with more benefit to one's own heart, than Pellico's account of his sufferings as a prisoner of the Austrian Government, of which we have given a review from the Foreign Quarterly. There is another fine article upon it in the last number of the Edinburgh Review, written with true feeling and a just conception of the character of the writer and of his work. We regret to say that Mr. Roscoe's English translation will convey no just idea of the style or spirit of the original. He has not preserved its delicacy and tenderness of sentiment, nor its simplicity and force of expression; he has interpolated and omitted; and Pellico appears almost a different individual in the version and in his own work.

The first volume of Professor Henry Ware's Sunday Library, containing his "Life of the Saviour"; and likewise his "Hints for the Formation of the Christian Character," have been republished in England. We notice likewise the commencement of a series of articles in the New Monthly Magazine upon the "Familiar Letters of Franklin," published by Mr. Sparks.

Captain Marryat, the author of several nautical novels, is the present editor of the Metropolitan Magazine, and Mr. Bulwer has announced his resignation of the editorship of the New Monthly. Neither work can lose much value into whatever hands it may pass.

One of the most extraordinary books which has been published in our day, considering its character, and the individual (Mr. Thomas Moore), who has made himself responsible for it, is "The Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion." It is ostensibly a defence of the Roman Catholic Faith, on the grounds, that this has ever been the faith of the Church, preserved by Tradition from the first ages, as may be shown by the writings of the Fathers and the decrees of Councils; that "the Scriptures, as a rule of faith, cannot be otherwise than obscure, uncertain, and unsafe, without the aid of that guidance which Tradition alone can supply, and which the Church, as the depository of all Christian Tradition, alone can furnish;" that their meaning, therefore, is not to be subjected to the judgment of individuals; that "reasoning is wholly misplaced" on the subject of "the grand and awful wonders of Christianity," (ch. xlvii.); that "to apply the touchstone of reason to religion," leads directly to infidelity, (ch. xlviii.) and “that reason which, even in this world's affairs, proves but a sorry conductress, is, in all heavenly things, a rash aud ruinous guide." (ch. li.)

The work is essentially a book of controversy written in a somewhat lighter style than has been common. A burlesque sort of love story is interwov

en with it. The argument is in general managed with the ingenuity of an able, determined, and subtle partisan; and with a considerable display of learning. The learning, however, is principally such as might readily be obtained at second-hand; there being nothing respecting the doctrine of the early Church, so far as it bears on the questions at issue between Roman Catholics and Protestants, or the history of the Reformation, or the character of the Reformers, which has not been often adduced by former controvertists.

We suspect, however, that the volume is not essentially the work of Mr. Moore. We imagine that he has merely been employed to give a popular character to the materials furnished by another. Though he has in some former writings affected an acquaintance with the works of the Fathers, yet we cannot believe that with his habits of mind and life, he has ever undertaken the serious study of the "Popish Controversy."

One may conjecture that the work is designed to keep together the Roman Catholic party in Ireland, now that they are no longer bound to each other by a feeling of common injuries suffered for their faith. Perhaps, however, it is merely the speculation of a bookmaker by trade. It may serve to confirm a Catholic in his belief; but upon the minds of the generality of those who have only a loose and popular faith in Christianity, its effect must be mischievous. Whatever may have been its design, it is essentially an infidel work. The alternative which it presents is this, You must give up the use of your reason, reject no doctrine, however incredible or absurd it may appear to you, or however irreconcilable with what seems to you the language of Scripture, and become or remain a Catholic; or if you decline this course, and pretend to exercise your reason on the subject of religion and in the study of the Scriptures, you will, if consistent, become an unbeliever. That the work was designed to produce this impression; that it was, in the view of the writer or the editor, an indirect attack on Christianity, it would perhaps be unjust to suppose. But that Mr. Moore is a man to argue from serious and earnest conviction in defence of any form of Christianity, is a conjecture which no one can admit as probable without exposing himself to be laughed at.

The publication of a new English translation of the great work of Cuvier, his "Animal Kingdom," Le Règne Animal, has been commenced in London. It is from the last edition of the original, published, with alterations and improvements, by the author just before his death. Dr. Griffith's Translation, the publication of which has been for some time in progress, is from the first edition. The present work is recommended by its cheapness. It will appear in thirty-six numbers, at one shilling each, a number being published on the first of every month. It is to contain not less than 500 plates, engraved on steel and colored. The original is said to cost (in England) a little more than 36 pounds. The publisher is G. Henderson, 2, Old Bailey.